The New Yorker - USA (2021-12-13)

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Solution to the previous puzzle:

ACROSS


1 Zest
6 Speeds (by)

10 Creature in the 2019 animated film
“Abominable”


14 Paid to play, in a way


15 Word with health or history


16 Significant time periods


17 Purloined


18 Beyond the pale


20 Common scent for tree-shaped air
fresheners


21 Fine print, often


22 Slowly trickles


24 Frozen Italian treat


25 ___ roll


27 Most up to the minute


31 Flower also known as a cranesbill


34 ___/her/hers


35 “No way, no how!”


39 Dot follower in some URLs


40 Inked contract, say


41 ___ the air


45 Broke off, as a relationship


46 Lamb Chop, e.g.


49 Sunscreen or deodorant option


52 “You have got to be kidding me!”


55 Place that’s all abuzz?


56 Bash where you can make a real splash


58 Opportunities to stand out on a stage


59 Human-rights barrister Clooney


60 Largest joint in the body


61 Eponymous skateboarding or
snowboarding move


62 Mother of 42-Down


63 Prepare loads of laundry, say


64 Essential things


DOWN


1 Reacts to shocking news, maybe
2 Loosen, as laces
3 Famous rock group?

4 Travel à la Doctor Strange
5 Work of homage
6 Field-trip destination, perhaps
7 “Go, me!”
8 Oscar-nominated actor Dev
9 “Taste the rainbow” or “It’s finger lickin’
good”
10 Like a ripe banana
11 People after whom a Great Lake is
named
12 Shades from the sun?
13 “Gotcha”
19 Inescapable destiny
23 Unexpected hiccup
24 Daily ___
26 Yoko with a voice role in “Isle of Dogs”
28 Rope-soled shoe
29 Silverstein who wrote “Falling Up”
30 Number of sides on a decagon
31 Young lady
32 Matching card game
33 “Luncheon on the Grass” painter
35 U.S. rep. for N.Y.’s Fourteenth
Congressional District
36 Brooding bird
37 Does some summing
38 Lookout point?
42 Twin brother of Artemis

43 Sit on it!
44 ___ volumes
47 Erotic flick
48 Key with an arrow
50 Give a wide berth
51 Green lights, as it were
52 Birthstone for some Libras
53 Abode
54 Winter outerwear
57 “And ___ here we are”
58 Anderson Cooper, to Gloria Vanderbilt

PUZZLES & GAMES DEPT.


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A lightly challenging puzzle.

BY CAITLIN REID


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